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READINGS |
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Our
readings will be drawn from four sources: Demosthenes' speech
in Greek with a helpful translation; introductions to the
speech and to oratory in the Cambridge text and the Texas
translation; other speeches contained in the Univ. of Texas
series on Attic oratory; scholarship collected by Carawan
in his edition on Attic oratory. We will proceed on two
parallel tracks: continuous reading of the Greek; pieces
in English that examine oratory and that illustrate different
styles of rhetoric, and the career of Demosthenes and the
context of On the Crown. Since class meetings occur
on Wednesdays and Fridays, you should focus your homework
from Friday-Wednesday on preparing chapters of the Greek,
and your Wednesday-Friday homework on preparing pieces in
English. While our focus on Fridays will be on works in
English, you should expect that we will cover some Greek
on those days as well, so please review Greek for Fridays. |
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| Reading
Demosthenes On the Crown |
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Demosthenes'
speech consists of 324 chapters (82 pages in English)
and so we will read select portions in Greek. The linked
table details the structure of the speech and the
passages we will read in Greek.
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| Topics
for Fridays
- Abbreviations--
- AO
=
The Attic Orators, ed. E. Carawan, Oxford
Readings in Classical Studies
- D18
= Demosthenes' Speeches 18 and 19,
The Oratory of Classical Greece vol. 9
- DOC
= Demosthenes On the Crown, Cambridge Greek
& Latin Classics
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Defining
and studying rhetoric
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Attic
oratory
- M.
Gagarin, "Introduction:: Greek Oratory," in
D18, pp. xi-xxix
- E. Carawan,
"Introduction: The Speechwriter's Art and the Imagined
Community," AO
pp. xxi-xxiv.
- L. Rubenstein,
"Arguments from Precedent in Attic Oratory,"
AO pp. 359-371.
- H. Yunis, Taming
Democracy: Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical
Athens (Ithaca, NY), DF82 .Y86 1996.
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| Demosthenes:
biography; political career; corpus of speeches
- Plutarch
Life of Demosthenes, Trans. B. Perrin, Harvard,
1919.
- Dionysios
of Halikarnassos on Demosthenes' prose style
- Demosthenes
(Perseus Encyclopedia entry)
- "Appendix
2: Timeline," D18, pp. 227-230.
- M. Gagarin,
"Introduction to Demosthenes," D18,
pp. 3-7
- H. Yunis,
"Introduction to this Volume," D18,
pp. 9-19.
- "5.
Speech, Text, Transmission," in DOC, pp.
26-33.
- "Appendix
1: The Spurious Documents from Demosthenes 18: On
the Crown," D18, pp. 217-227.
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The
assembly, lawcourts, celebrations & funerals: venues
for oratory
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The
power of persuasion: from Gorgias and "intellectual
oratory" to Demosthenes' On the Crown:
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Forensic
oratory and the lawcourts: citizens, women, prostitutes
and legal procedures
- Lysias'
Against Eratosthenes
- Apollodorus'
Against Neaira
- M. Lang,
The
Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora,
rev. J. McK. Camp II (American School of Classical Studies
at Athens, 2004), especially the section on "Judiciary
and Lawcourts," pp. 23-27.
- S. Usher,
"Lysias and his Clients," AO pp.
27-36.
- J.R.
Porter, "Adultery by the Book: Lysias 1 (On
the Murder of Eratosthenes) and Comic Diegesis,"
AO pp. 60-88.
- H. Meyer-Laurin,
"Law and Equity in the Attic Trial," AO
pp. 116-139.
- S.C.
Humphreys, "Social Relations on Stage: Witnesses
in Classical Athens," AO pp. 141-213.
- C. Carey,
" 'Artless' Proofs in Aristotle and the Orators,"
AO pp. 229-246.
- D.C.
Mirhady, "Torture and Rhetoric in Athens,"
AO pp. 247-268.
- S.C.
Todd, "Lady Chatterley's Lover and the
Attic Orators: The Social Composition of the Athenian
Jury," AO pp. 312-358.
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| Epideictic
oratory: funerary orations and Panhellenic festivals
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| Symbouleutic
or deliberative oratory: the great debates in the ekklesia
- Aeschines'
On the Crown
- Demosthenes'
On the Crown
- "18.
In Defense of Ctesiphon On the Crown: Introduction
- Background; Synopsis of the speech," in D18,
pp. 23-31.
- H.
Yunis, "Politics as Literature: Demosthenes
and the Burden of the Athenian Past," AO
pp. 372-390.
- Introduction
to DOC:
- "1.
Athenian Poliltics in Response to Macedonian
Expansion," pp. 1-6.
- "2.
The Graphe Paranomon and the Trial
on Demosthenes' Crown," pp. 7-12.
- "3.
Explaining Chaeronea," pp. 12-17
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| Other
speeches: Thucydides' Mytilenean debate (3.26-50); Melian
dialogue (5.85-113) |
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